June 25, 2017

Before Shag and Rob head home from HeroesCon 2017, they recorded a “Zany Haney” segment “live” from the Charlotte, NC airport! They discuss “The Hour of the Beast”, from BRAVE AND THE BOLD #122 (Oct. 1975), guest starring Swamp Thing, then “Dead Man’s Quadrangle”, from BRAVE AND THE BOLD #127 (June 1976), guest starring Wildcat, both stories by Haney and Jim Aparo! Come for the great story and art, stay for the constant PA announcements!

Even today biplanes are still used for crop dusting. But more where the slower speeds and more stable flying is needed. MAybe in a city between building while being attacked by killer plants is one of those times? You never know.

Awesome episode. The airport announcer sounds like the emergency broadcast announcer from “The Purge”. I liked that y’all bought actually issues at a comic con and then did the episode based on that random event

I think the mastermind behind the plot in the Wildcat story may be visually based on Haney himself! He’s very similar-looking to Haney’s look from that classic Sgt. Rock story where he, Aparo and editor Boltinoff appear.

I’m totally with Rob on not feeling a bit of awkwardness meeting folks in the flesh for the first time. It was like a geek reunion…amongst a bunch of friends who had somehow never met! One of my favorite weekends EVER.

That’s funny about Haney putting himself in this story. Maybe he thought of himself as the Alfred Hitchcock of B&B? I was looking at the images of the villain and thought that he looked a bit like 70’s era Fidel Castro.